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discussed in biography

...writing, Sciascia did not discover his favourite vehicle, the mystery novel, until the publication in 1961 of
Il giorno della civetta (“The Day of the Owl,” first Eng. trans.
Mafia Vendetta), a study of the Mafia. Other mystery novels followed, among them
A ciascuno il suo (1966;
A Man’s Blessing),
Il contesto (1971;
Equal Danger), and...

Italian literature

...and past he displays with concerned and scholarly insight, with two of his better-known books—in the format of thrillers—covering the sinister operations of the local Mafia (
Il giorno della civetta [1963;
The Day of the Owl] and
A ciascuno il suo [1966; “To Each His Own”; Eng. trans.
A Man’s Blessing]). After a...